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Friday, June 02, 2006

Doyle Wakes Up Regarding Milwaukee Violence

Gov. Jim Doyle's office has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference at Milwaukee City Hall to announce "state action" to help curb the violence on Milwaukee streets. He'll be joined, according to a release from his office, by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Police Chief Nannette Hegerty.

U.S. Rep. Mark Green, a Republican candidate for governor, criticized Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle Thursday for inaction on Milwaukee's Memorial Day weekend violence, which included the slayings of two people in South Shore Park.

"You can't wait for somebody to call," Green said at a Milwaukee news conference. "He should be here. . . . As governor, I would not have stood silent after a weekend like the one we just saw."

Doyle spokesman Matt Canter said Doyle had been "in serious conversation with the city" constantly since the weekend shootings and would lead an effort to address the issue. Doyle's physical presence in the city wasn't necessary, Canter said.

12 Comments:

Brian good job this a.m. on the early spin. It is a third rail, and it's a shame that caring about the issue is not an equal opportunity. What's worse to me is efforts to provide real help being rejected or scorned.

this is absurd. Because Doyle didn't unveil a bunch of meaningless slogans hours after the shooting stopped, he dragged his feet?

Fact is that you rightwingers, Green included, care about nothing except spinning yourselves into power. Doyle gets bashed because he actually spoke w/ local leaders and has something to say apart from generic spin.

Apart from extraordinary events - such as 28 shootings in a weekend - you think the Governor and the AG are on the frontlines of fighting street crime?

Of course you don't; you just can't help yourself.

Again, the idea that Green did goog with an instant, knee jerk, generic outburst after the weekend is better than Doyle taking a few days to put something together. Please stop insulting our intelligence.

1- So Doyle is bad if he does nothing and he is "political" if he does something. Cute.

2- Typical Repub. tactic: "Programs" have been tried and failed, therefore no more programs. Of course, in the real world we actually look at what has worked and what hasn't and we adjust, change and innovate.

What amuses me is that Fraley and his rightwing friends posting here have only one response to the carnage - "It's horrible and nothing should be done about it!"

What's also wierd is that no one who knows what they are talking about can call Milwaukee cops, DA's, or judges soft on crime - they keep the jails plenty full.

All Doyle did was show up and throw around some money to try & buy some votes.

The AG has been MIA on this issue and it is not like the increase in violence is a new thing.

Down in Racine it is almost as bad per capita and no one is here. This is headline driven, nothing more, nothing less.

Face it, what we have here is mostly black on black crime, the Guv & the AG care not about that sort of thing or they would of been tring to do substantial things more than 5 months before their re-election.